What's in your fishy cupboards?

[fins_n_fur]

Possibly I'm going to embarrass myself. I just set-up my old hospital tank as a new tank to replace my nano tank (it was too darn small for me to clean with out uprooting the plants all the time). So the old 8 gallon nano will become a hospital tank. In setting up the 70l/18 gallon tank, I was shocked to see how much stuff I have collected in just over 18 months of being in the hobby. My fish cupboard (two cupboards, what's under the 120 g tank as storage space, two drawers, and God only knows what's in the garage :hmm3grin2orange: ). I spent so much money on stuff that I just can't bare to throw away. This is what I'm NOT using:

- 1 "spare" Eheim Prof 3 2180 thermo filter
- ceramic balls and ceramic "noodles" for above
- 2 25 pounds of filter or pool sand
- 1 full piece of a background wall and 1 half of a piece
- 1 Eheim dual air pump with tubing and bubblers
- Various test kits for Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, CO2, Phosphate, and pH test for two ranges, and one range (mine, of course, was right smack dab in the middle)
- Various meds (old ones are going in the bin)
- Two brand new light bulbs for the nano
- Two spare bulbs for the 18 gallon
- Two bulbs for the 125 gallon (wrong Kelvin-bought before I thought I would do a planted tank)
- Dry ferts that probably should be binned
- 2 six pound CO2 tanks
- A full auto pH and CO2 controller kit (will go back to using soon, I think) with CO2 diffuser/reactor
- A number of hideous Borg green Eheim uptake tubes and spray bars (why that colour? why?)
- Two large pieces of driftwood
- Three hideous fake rocks
- A electric CO2 production device that I'm sure never really produced enough CO2
- An Eheim battery powered underwater gravel vac
- A cheapo version of above
- A seemingly endless supply of suction cups and clips
- A spare corner filter and cartridges for the nano tank
- A couple of broken timers (to be binned)
- About 5 spare power strips (why on earth do I have so many, but never can find them, so I always seem to need to buy new ones?)
- A bunch of plastic and paper bags that I kept in case I need to transport fish (to where, I wonder? I've only done that two times for friends)
- One broken "python" which I wonder why I still keep
- A few meters of tubing of various sizes
- An Eheim Aquaball filter and spare filter cartridges
- A number of tubes of aquarium-safe silicone
- A handful of CO2 drop checkers
- A number of bottles of calibration fluid, cleaner, and distilled water for the pH probe
- A Dennerle CO2 "ladder"
- other stuff I'm too embarrassed to mention

So, what's hanging about in your fish cupboards that you aren't using? Surely there is someone worse than me. Surely.

[MCHRKiller]

:hmm3grin2orange: Quite the collection there F&F

Spare Tanks:
125G-iron stand, glass tops and lighting
75G-solid oak cabinet, glass tops and lighting
3*29 gallons(1 Iron stand for that holds 2 of them)
4*20 gallon Highs(2 Iron stands)
1*20 gallon Long(wooden stand....goes with other 29G)
6*10 gallons
2*5.5gallons
4*2.5gallons

Spare Filters:
2*NIB Rena XP3 Canisters
1*XP2 Canister
3*Eheim 2217s
2*Mag 350s
1*HOT Magnum
2*Emp 400s
4*Penguin/AquaTech 330s
25gallon rubbermaid bin of small random HOBs....atleast 10-15
25gallon rubber maid bin of sponge filters/internal box filters...numerous amounts

Other Equipment:
10-15 old heaters
20ish old airpumps of various sizes
6-8 powerheads...pair korailia 3s, various cheaper ones
shoplites, various aquarium hoods and light strips to previously mentioned tanks and spares from tanks past
450gallon cattle stock trough...was going to make indoor pond

Decor:
6-7 large pieces of malaysian wood
large box of manzanita
several hundred pounds of aquarium gravel
boxes of fake plants
boxes of aquarium rocks

I have given away/thrown out quite a bit of it over the last year...this is just the better stuff I had left that was in good working order and I would probably use again. In normal rotation I like to keep ahead on essentials like staple fish foods, dechlorinator, salt, etc. I keep all of that stuff in my aquarium cabinets. But the stuff listed above...the tanks and stands are in a storage building and the equipment and decor resides in my basement.:11:

[smaug]

Everything that was spare I used as an excuse to set up another tank(blush) I do still have a "spare" 58 gal oceanic show tank howeverthumbs2:

[bluebluecow]

i must be good, all thats in the cupboard is spae filter foam, and the pumps and electrics

Used to keep the food, meds and test kits in there but the kids got them

Liz

[smaug]

i must be good, all thats in the cupboard is spae filter foam, and the pumps and electrics

Used to keep the food, meds and test kits in there but the kids got them

Liz
your kids are something else!

[Northernguy]

I have all sorts of stuff hidden in there.Its great when you get to sit and go through it all just to shove it all back in again because you have nowhere else to put it.I simply like to remind myself of what I usually forget i have.:hmm3grin2orange:

[aquatic lover]

I have two spare plants, most of the things I diddn't use went back to the pet store.

[fins_n_fur]

:hmm3grin2orange: Quite the collection there F&F


Agreed, but you exceed me by far....between us, we could open up a spare parts or small LFS :hmm3grin2orange:

[Rue]

LOL...

I don't have quite as much spare stuff...but it is there...hiding in the cupboards and drawers...

[Chazbot]

Ok, I was all ready to respond but you guys make me feel ashamed!

All I've got in my cabinet is -

Food
Stress Coat
Eheim vaccuum
Leaf Zone
Spare filter media
Rid ich
Tetracycline
Triple Sulfa
A plastic bowl
A breeder box

Somehow I've managed to keep the fish cabinet neat and I haven't gone overboard. However in my birds' cabinets... well that's another story.